RIVERSIDE, Alabama -- Several law enforcement and rescue agencies are currently looking for a Riverside man who fell out of a boat Sunday night in Logan Martin Lake.

St. Clair County Undersheriff Billy Murray said Willie Cosby, 48, of Riverside, was in a fishing boat with his wife roughly 250 to 300 yards from shore last night about 7:30 p.m. However, the two were not fishing, Murray said.

Cosby apparently dropped something in the water, bent over to pick it up and accidentally tipped the boat over. Both Cosby and his wife fell into the water. The wife made it to shore, but Cosby has not been seen since.

Murray said a search began last night using sonar in an area north of the Interstate 20 bridge. This morning, the sheriff's office, Riverside Police, Marine Police and the Etowah County Rescue Squad began a search using drag nets.

The area of the search is currently around the part of the lake where Cosby was last seen. The depth of the water is an estimated 60 to 65 feet in that part of the lake.

This is the latest in a series of incidents this year in the area involving missing people in the waters around St. Clair and Talladega counties. Just last week, an elderly Pell City man drowned in the lake. A St. Clair County man's body was discovered last month in the Coosa River in Pell City after authorities had been searching for him since January.